Summary: This week, we have two MMO Knights, Bill and Layanor. Layanor talks about his new adventures in Guild Wars 2, 140 employees fired from Daybreak, and Bill talks about Star Citizen! Audio Version what we did in game bill GW2 layanor lotro secret world guild wars 2 Patreon patreon.com/mmoreporter 22 patrons 108$ news PAX review Star Citizen free for the week https://robertsspaceindustries.com/promotions/paxeast-2015 http://massivelyop.net/2015/03/09/star-citizen-is-letting-everyone-fly-for-free-this-week/ appears to be “solo” play only Access to Anvil Hornet F7C trainer ship in Arena Commander module, or walking around the hanger deck code: PAXEASTFREEFLY2K15 Daybreak Layoffs Totalled 140 in San Diego http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2015/mar/05/Daybreak-sony-online-everquest-columbus-nova-game/ U-T San Diego reports that 140 employees were let go from Daybreak’s San Diego office Investment firm Columbus Nova purchased SOE from Sony on February 2nd and renamed it Daybreak Game Company. On February 11th, the studio laid off a portion of its staff from several teams. Since then, PlanetSide 2’s Matt Higby resigned, EverQuest Next dropped Storybricks (which then closed), and GM support in Daybreak’s games was pared down. New GM policy is they can not help players fix items they may have lotted, made, bought, sold, or destroyed accidentally. The company is also not going to bring back any deleted characters. FF XIV not going free to play (shocked) and other Heavensward info http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2015/03/08/final-fantasy-xiv-heavensward-interview-with-naoki-yoshida-airships-snowboarding-and-crafting/#/slide/1 via http://massivelyop.net/2015/03/09/final-fantasy-xiv-wont-be-going-f2p-any-time-soon/ Don’t see games like ESO going B2P as affecting their game; they have their own model and plan to stick to it 80% satisfaction rate with regard to subscription model as we mentioned last week, 4M subscriptions - hard to argue they’re doing it wrong See interview for more Heavenward info Audible Go to audibletrial.com/mmoreporter Doghouse Use the coupon code mmoreporter for RAMBOGO! (Double your ram!) Contact info: Website: mmoreporter.com Emaill: mmo.reporter@gmail.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/mmoreporter Twitter: @mmo_reporter Twitter: @harryhol Twitter: @layanor Twitter: @mmobill Voicemail: 616-666-6778 Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/mmoreporternetwork/ http://mmoreporter.com/support/
